Town News Briefing

October 21, 2002

ENFIELD

School Issues

To Be Discussed

ENFIELD -- The board of education will hold a community conversation to discuss redistricting for the school system, plans for the new elementary school additions and suggestions for cost-saving measures such as pay-for-play athletics.

The meeting will take place Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, 1 Bright Meadow Blvd. Refreshments will be served.

ENFIELD

Rosters Available For

Over-30 Basketball

ENFIELD -- The Enfield Recreation Department is offering an over-30 winter basketball league that begins play Dec. 3 at the Angelo Lamagna Activity Center gym.

To sign up, rosters are available through the recreation office weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A $450 entry fee must be returned with a completed roster to the office by Nov. 22. Two out-of-town players are eligible for each roster and coaches must verify players' residency if they are new to the league.

The first eight teams to return rosters and pay the entry fees will be considered for the league.

ENFIELD

Job Fair Scheduled

At Asnuntuck Tuesday

ENFIELD -- The Department of Labor will have a free job fair Tuesday at Asnuntuck Community College that will feature more than 60 companies.

The college is at 170 Elm St. The fair runs from noon to 4 p.m.

For more information see the department's job fair website at www.ctjobfairs.com. Directions to the fair can also be obtained by calling 860-263-6306.

NEW HAVEN

Author Margot Livesy

To Speak At Yale

NEW HAVEN --Author Margot Livesy will speak at Yale University Wednesday. Her 4:30 p.m. talk will be in the Master's house of Calhoun College, 434 College St.

Livesy, the author of ``Eva Moves the Furniture'' and three other novels, has had numerous stories published. She has received several major grants for her writing and has taught in a number of writing programs.

NEW HAVEN

Filmmaker, Producer

To Show Film At Yale

NEW HAVEN -- Filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and film producer and photographer Norman Cohn will visit Yale University Tuesday.

They will speak at a master's tea at 3:30 p.m. in Davenport College, 248 York St. and show their new film ``Atanarjuat/The Fast Runner'' at 6:30 p.m. in Whitney Humanities center, 53 Wall St.

Both events are free and open to the public.

NEW HAVEN

Professor To Give

Whitney Hall Lecture

NEW HAVEN -- Patricia Steinhoff, professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii, will present the annual John Whitney Hall Lecture Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Peabody Museum Auditorium, 170 Whitney Ave.

The lecture, titled ``Who Really Kidnapped Those Japanese to North Korea?'' is open to the public without charge.

Call 203-432-3427 or e-mail alexander.han@yale.edu for information.

NEW HAVEN

Pulitzer Winners

Talk About Series

NEW HAVEN -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham, staff writers at the Washington Post, will speak Friday at the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series. Their 11:30 a.m. talk, ``A Decade of Deadly Mistakes,'' is free and open to the public in Room 211 at the Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. Call 203-432-9935 for information.

Horwitz, Higham and colleague Sara Cohen won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for a four-part series on the death of foster children in the child welfare system in Washington, D.C. The series also won the Robert F. Kennedy grand prize for reporting on the disadvantaged.

NEW HAVEN

Fairness, Accuracy

Are The Topics

NEW HAVEN -- Janine Jackson, program director for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting will speak Thursday at Yale University's Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The 4:30 p.m. discussion is free and open to the public.

Jackson is also the producer and host of FAIR's nationally syndicated radio show Counterspin.

Police said the man, his features hidden by a black ski mask and a headband, walked in through the rear of a Subway shop on Route 1. He confronted employees with the knife, then stole a black leather purse and money from the cash register.

The robber was about 5 foot 8 and was wearing dark pants and a dark shirt, police said. He may have driven off in a dark colored pickup truck.

Police are looking for anyone who saw the pickup being operated recklessly in the area of the Monkey Farm or Saybrook Office Equipment about 4:30 p.m.

BRISTOL

$450,000 Awarded

For Center's Expansion

BRISTOL -- The Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut has received $450,000 in federal funding to expand its Harry C. Barnes Memorial Nature Center.

The project is one of five funded through a $4.4 million appropriation secured by U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-New Britain. Others include $2 million to clean up Long Island Sound, $1 million for construction of a new water treatment plant in New Britain and $500,000 for the development and construction of a new well source in Southington.